Part travelogue, part psychological self-study, Sam Pickering's Edinburgh Days, or Doing What I Want to Do is an open invitation to be led on a walking tour of Scotland's capital, as well as through the labyrinth of the guide's swerving...
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- Author:Pickering, SamSummary:
- Author:Gilbert, ElizabethSummary:
- Author:Dubinsky, KarenSummary:
Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets,...
- Author:Bryan, LizSummary:
Experience Alberta's heritage and the outdoors in Country Roads of Alberta, an intriguing photographic guidebook that takes you to places off the beaten track. Alberta's scenery is as diverse as its topography. Fringed along its western...
- Author:Cameron, DaveSummary:
Fleeing the increasing pressure to settle down, a restless young man heeds the call of the road and sets out on a meandering four-month bus trip from Dawson, Yukon, to Key West, Florida. Continental Drifter is the record of that journey...
- Author:Hastings, EliSummary:
Serala drank frat boys under the table. She wore saris and ate delicately from plates of curry at family events; elsewhere she wore a lip ring, designer shades, and a cowboy hat and ordered bloody steaks. She wrote volumes of poetry,...
- Author:Cheadle, WalterSummary:
Walter B. Cheadle’s diary tells his incredible story of travelling with Lord Milton, as they journeyed along the uncharted Yellowhead route in 1862–63. A miraculously successful expedition, the men traversed the continent, making their...
- Author:Leach, DavidSummary:
A fascinating, non-partisan exploration of an incendiary region
Say the word “Israel” today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the...
- Author:Wendel, Tim.Summary:
A long-forgotten scrapbook stirs Billy Bryan's memories of a distant past and beckons him and his grown daughter on a reluctant journey to relive his role in history. In 1947 Billy Bryan was playing winter ball in Cuba, his future...
- Author:Hunter, RebeccaSummary:
A pro hockey player with a rough reputation and a dark past.An American looking for a taste of adventure.Will they turn their sensual nights into something more?Photographer Caroline Mendoza finally sheds her safe life in Michigan for...
- Author:Morton, DesmondSummary:
Morton, one of Canada's most respected historians, has given us a short celebration of Canada with a depth of insight that truly helps us to know one another and all the regions of the country.
- Author:NILAND, D'ArcySummary:
The Southern Cross turns over, telling travellers under the vast Australian skies of the passing of the night and the coming of dawn. Barbie, a traveller, sees the hardship, laughter, suffering and joy.
- Author:Hagood, JohnsonSummary:
Major General Johnson Hagood (1873–1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the 20th century. An artillerist and a scholar of military science, Hagood became a noted expert in logistics, and served as the...
- Author:Kawatski, Deanna BarnhardtSummary:
“Burning Man, Slaying Dragon is an exciting, high stakes, spiritual adventure that spans decades, continents, cultures and generations. As a young, headstrong hippie, Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski leaves her home at her beloved Shuswap Lake...
- Author:Keller, Betty, Leslie, RosellaSummary:
For well over a century, the bright seas of the Sunshine Coast have been attracting visitors to the waterfront resorts, fishing lodges and beaches that rest between Howe Sound and the spectacular Princess Louisa Inlet. These coastal...
- Author:Winter, KathleenSummary:
The long-awaited follow up to Annabel and Kathleen Winter’s first work of narrative nonfiction.In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter took a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians,...
- Author:Macpherson, MargaretSummary:
Body Trade weaves together two stories of survival. The main narrative follows Rosie and Tanya, two young Canadian women who decide to leave the Northwest Territories and head south on an ill-conceived road trip through California,...
- Author:Salmond, AnneSummary:
"In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a key episode in the history of the world, rather than simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts with a fresh...
- Author:Terry, BillSummary:
Beyond Beauty is the story of a remarkable journey that Bill Terry and his wife, Rosemary, undertook when they joined a party of Dutch and British alpine plant hunters intent on botanizing on the roof of the world. The expedition...
- Author:Ives, Jack D.Summary:
A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the “golden age” of federal research. In the 1960s,...